Choosing Christmas tree lights to match your decor

Christmas is a time for giving, but that doesn’t mean that what you do in terms of Christmas decorations needs to look odd in comparison to your well-thought out home décor scheme. Christmas tree lights are a typical case in point. There you were spending hours and long-earned cash to make sure you home was illuminated tastefully and in the way you wanted. Then you (or more likely someone else in your family) bring in a Christmas tree with brash flashing lights that simply clash with everything else. That isn’t going to look pretty.

Some would argue that a Christmas tree is simply there to be festive; but it can look good as well. It doesn’t have to look like a spare Christmas part that you have dressed just because it is traditionally the right thing to do.

Nowadays there are so many different Christmas tree lights to choose from, you don’t have to challenge your established (and loved) home décor and compromise the way it looks. In fact, if you care about your personal home décor scheme, you should make sure that your Christmas tree complements your chosen home décor scheme. When we talk about Christmas lights, there isn’t a lot to choose from in terms of style – but you can differentiate in terms of color and, more importantly, in terms of concept.

So your first decision will be whether you want a string of Christmas tree lights that comprise individual bulbs attached to electric wires that need to be plugged in to make them work, or whether you want to try more politically correct solar string lights that rely on free power from the sun. If you think about it more carefully, you’ll realize that apart from being PC, solar powered Christmas lights will look just as good – maybe even better – and they’ll cost you a lot less. You’ll also be saving the environment, however little this might be. Check our selection of solar string lights and solar rope lights

Having made that first very important decision, you’ll need to decide how long your string of Christmas tree lights needs to be. This will depend on the size of your tree. You can use one 50-LED string for a small tree, but if you have a particularly large tree, you will probably need to buy several 102-LED strings. How many twinkling lights do you want around the tree? The more you want the longer (or more) string lights you are going to need.

Next will be color. The LED string lights that are used to make Christmas tree lights generally come in white, blue, red and green. Perhaps your color scheme is pink and green, but that isn’t necessarily a problem. Think about colors carefully and decide whether the introduction of color is there for impact, or whether you want it to meld with what you have already, and then work with what you have already got. A pink and green color scheme isn’t a problem because you can opt for white Christmas tree lights and work from there.

Then choose your other decorations to be absolutely sure your Christmas tree decorations and match your general décor scheme. More on outdoor solar lights